What are the Chinese folk festivals

Important sacrificial festivals (lunar calendar)

Ching Ming Festival: for a year of Yangming time, cold to spring, everything begins to grow, is suitable for trekking to maintain the body of the tomb, more than in this day to worship the ancestors.

The fifth day of the fifth month: is a traditional Chinese festival - Dragon Boat Festival, the folk also worship ancestors on this day.

June 19: Guanyin, the Goddess of Mercy, becomes a Taoist priest, and it is customary to worship Guanyin to ask for salvation.

July 15: the Ghost Festival, this day the dead can get ferry, out of the sea of suffering, is the soul of the festival of liberation.

July 30th: the birthday of Earth Store Bodhisattva, who will rescue all those who do good deeds.

October 1st: This is the first day of October, when the cold weather has set in, and it is customary to give away cold clothes.

November 17: This is the day when offerings are made to the Buddha to ask him to help the dead.

December 23: The valley is called the year of the young, and it is a day of worship to welcome spring.

Meanwhile, offerings can be made on the first, eighth, fifteenth, nineteenth, twenty-third, twenty-ninth and thirtieth days of the month to eliminate sins and generate blessings, and offerings can also be made according to the date of birth and death of the deceased.